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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Doesn't need the passage of time to become a classic. It's one already. Read full review

  • 100
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    It's a funny, fearless, poignant, spectacular performance. Come to think of it, those words could well apply to the entirety of Tadpole. Read full review

  • 90
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Tadpole may be small, but it's something special -- a cheeky comedy knockout. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    A smart sex comedy that successfully swims upstream to spawn and score. Read full review

  • 88
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    An irreverent and witty comedy in which the events aren't predictable but are well paced. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Where ''Rushmore'' surprises and delights with its spiky depiction of sprawling American idiosyncrasy, Tadpole's more urbane, less complicated charms are specifically made in New York City. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Shot in just two weeks with a hand-held digital camera, the movie often looks frayed around the edges. Yet it has a soulful heart and a clear grasp of its rarefied milieu (Manhattan upper-level moneyed academia). Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Witty, adult treatment of an offbeat subject: a pubescent boy's infatuation with an older woman. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    The witty coming-of-age film is marred by an uneven, digitally shot look, a disservice to its first-rate cast. Read full review

  • 50
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    I praised "Lovely & Amazing," which also features a romance between an adult woman and a teenage boy. But "Lovely & Amazing" is about events that happen in a plausible world (the adult is actually arrested). Tadpole wants only to be a low-rent "Graduate" clone. Read full review

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